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Live dog mascot named 'Swagger' will lead Cleveland Browns onto the field this season

07/14/2014, 6:14am EDT

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Browns to introduce live 'dawg' mascot

BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns are going to have a live, barking, panting mascot when they take the field this fall.

Kevin Griffin, the Browns vice president of fan experience and marketing, tells a Cleveland radio station that the team will have a bullmastiff named Swagger leading the players onto the field at FirstEnergy Stadium.

A few other NFL teams feature live mascots, including the Seattle Seahawks (Taima the hawk), the Denver Broncos (a white Arabian horse named Thunder II) and the Baltimore Ravens (ravens named Rise and Conquer).